Western University has reached a milestone with its gender-based and sexual violence prevention: all undergraduate students have completed consent training. Mustangs for Consent—a two-part consent training program that first launched in 2022 for students in residence before it was expanded across campus—is part of the university’s broader approach to promoting education and preventing gender-based sexual violence among its community members. The university also offers training to faculty and staff on how to handle disclosures and is in the process of piloting training for graduate students. “It sets the tone early on about our community expectations of how we’re going to treat each other,” said Western Acting Vice-Provost (Students) Stephanie Hayne Beatty.
